Building a Better Vocabulary
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Compact discs.
"Course no. 9373"--Disc label.
Five principles for learning vocabulary -- The spelling-meaning connection -- Words for lying, swindling, and conniving -- Words that express annoyance and disgust -- Fighting words and peaceful words -- Going beyond dictionary meanings -- Wicked words -- Words for beginnings and endings -- Words expressing fear, love, and hatred -- Words for the everyday and the elite -- Words from gods and heroes -- Humble words and prideful words -- High-frequency Greek and Latin roots -- Words relating to belief and trust -- Words for the way we talk -- Words for praise, criticism, and nonsense -- Eponyms from literature and history -- Thinking, teaching, and learning words -- Words for the diligent and the lazy -- Words that break and words that join -- Some high-utility Greek and Latin affixes -- Cranky words and cool words -- Words for courage and cowardice -- Reviewing vocabulary through literature -- Words for killing and cutting -- A vocabulary grab bag -- Words for words -- Specialty words for language -- Nasty words and nice words -- Words for the really big and the very small -- Spelling as a vocabulary tool -- A medley of new words -- Building vocabulary through games -- Words English borrowed and never returned -- More foreign loan words -- Forgotten words and neologisms.
Lecturer: Professor Kevin Flanigan, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
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SERIES
Great courses. Professional. Communication skills.
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2015].
Year Published: 2015
Description: 18 audio discs (1080 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course book (vi, 283 pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781598039177
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Flanigan, Kevin,
Teaching Company.
SUBJECTS
Vocabulary.
Vocabulary -- Study and teaching.
Words, New.
Language arts -- Social aspects.